"I think it must hurt us a little too," explained the journalist of 444 the other day , arguing with the EU oil embargo, describing the collapse of the energy system as a "small" pain. "It causes an economic downturn, it causes inflation, the GDP will obviously fall further, but morally I think this is right!" - added this holy man; shame on yourself (but very rudely) for anyone who can't even take on so much harakiri out of good will.

Stalled economy, rising unemployment, a little poverty here and there: perish who is offended by such things, while they are firing cannons in Nyehoteyevka.

He is the moral preacher of 444. According to his Instagram page, for example, our man doesn't drink vodka at all, but sometimes makes do with a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail, or even Blanton's whiskey if necessary. Which is available at a low price of around forty thousand forints per seven-decis bottle - so we feel how generous the Rózsadombi liberal is when he would simply accept the harsher inflation. In extreme cases, he would perhaps pay HUF 60,000 for his favorite single malt, or even give it up temporarily, because he is morally on top. Not like the Szabolcs farmer, who clings tooth and nail to his miserable agricultural inputs.

But browsing through the Instagram albums of morale champions, you may also notice that in the Christmas pictures they are stretching at home in a t-shirt - which in itself is nothing wrong, but in our country, even before the Russian invasion, we did not turn up the thermostat, but put on a sweater. (He who was born into a family that did not submit to the Soviet system and was therefore a scumbag learned these tricks early.)

It can be said that even in peacetime, we crushed pepper under Putin's nose with low consumption; it's a pity that, according to the signs, this did not lead to world peace.

Of course, if the naysayers from 444 to the Dutch EU Commissioner wish it so, we will gladly accept it as a thesis that the willingness to resign and the restrained use of resources is a sign of moral superiority, only then before anyone criticizes Hungary for its reluctance to abandon the most basic sectors of its economy. , maybe look around your own portal. It's cool, for example, that Frans Timmermans suggests that out of solidarity we heat less and go by bike, but even now only 390 out of 1,000 people in our country own a car (this makes us third in the European Union in the race for the fewest car users), while in the paradise of cyclists , in the Netherlands this ratio is 494, the EU average is 526, and in Luxembourg, which cannot show significant distances to be covered and offers free public transport throughout the country, it is 676.

If all kinds of consumption in these model countries started to converge to those of Hungary, we would be more than happy to reach for our belts to have a good time.

Francesca Rivafinoli's entire article can be read on the vasarnap.hu portal.

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